RE: NPR, Godel, Semantic Web

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

One man's garbage is another man's gold. 
Dem's da rulz.

We will have a big struggle over the rights 
to the knowledge bases.  We started HumanML 
and inside three months, I can count at least 
a dozen efforts in the same domains.  That 
is normal.  It also says, give it a year or so and 
then some standards org has a good case to 
create a standard.  Then the authority is 
clear even if the membership isn't.  Then 
we will complain about burglary and closed 
membership and there will be those claiming 
we can't do this, and  and  and...

.... garbage becomes gold.  Thousands of 
years of alchemical ambition comes down 
to email.  Garbage In Gold Out. ;-)

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@mediaone.net]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:12 PM
To: Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: NPR, Godel, Semantic Web


Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >
> >It may well trip on authority, but this claim suggests that it also trips
> >on inherent limitations of logical processing.
>
> I should clarify this claim as it was made on the radio.
>
> It's not that such systems will return wrong answers - it's that there are
> right answers they cannot find.  How that would echo through a system or
> whether users would even notice the missing information isn't clear.
>
> Again, if anyone has a better explanation, I'd love to see one.
Otherwise,
> I guess I'll be calling NPR to track down the mathematician they were
> interviewed.
>

In my experience it trips on:

GIGO

no mathematics needed to understand that.

-Jonathan




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